A review by reads2cope
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

4.0

I loved Sarah Dessen when I was young, and having recently seen the movie adaptation, I had to return to the text. It was a fun and nostalgic read! Though some things really place the book in the time it was written (especially the casual ableism in calling strangers “crazies,” etc.) it was also a good time capsule (no social media, coughing through second-hand smoke at clubs, home-phones, and more) and a welcome escape to the often insure but also beautiful time between the end of high school and the start of university. I saw a lot of my young and too-judgmental self in Auden, and I love how she and almost every character around her got to grow through this story.